New York City just came up with a new plan to make its train systems and other public places safer for guns. They said they would test gun scanners in the train system because there have been more crimes in public transportation.
Over the last few weeks, New York has sent a lot of National Guardsmen into the train system to help fight some of the high-profile crimes they’ve been seeing there.
“We are taking the next step forward in our ongoing efforts to make our subways even safer and ensure that New Yorkers feel safer in the transit system,” Eric Adams said. The Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology Act says that the technology can’t be used for a few months. They will have to wait at least ninety days before it can be used.
While they wait, the police will look into different technologies that can find weapons. It will be put in MTA stations “where the NYPD will be able to further evaluate the equipment’s effectiveness,” the Mayor’s Office said.
Then he says that even though crime is going down in the state, they are now dealing with a rise in transit crime, and high-profile crimes are becoming a problem for people who take the train a lot.
Adams says that the technology uses a body scanner, which is usually used to find places where a weapon might be. There is also no biometrics or face recognition, he said, and people can get off the subway if they don’t want to go through it. If the scanner raised an alert, the person would only be searched in the area that was raised.
